Leaders in the region have been doing their part in terms of vaccination by promoting vaccines constantly and organizing local raffles for those who have gotten their shot but she says the province needs to do a better job of tailoring its message to the north.
She s already asked officials with the Saskatchewan Health Authority to do a better job informing people about the Moderna vaccine used in remote communities. People need to feel safe about the injection, she said. What s in it? How was it made? People really want to know in detail all of that information.
As of Sunday afternoon, Saskatchewan had administered 590,952 doses of COVID-19 vaccine, of which 10,554 less than 2 per cent were in Saskatchewan s far northwest region.
We’re going to have a one-dose spring and quite likely a two-dose summer, as we are planning to have second doses available to everyone in the province by sometime in the middle of July.
About 40 per cent of Canadians are vaccinated with at least a first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Saskatchewan is running ahead of national numbers, with about 50 per cent of adults and more than 70 per cent of those aged 40 and over having already received their first dose.
That 70 per cent marker is one of the key thresholds in the first step of Saskatchewan s reopening plan, which Moe said he expects will come into effect on May 30. That will be three weeks after 70 per cent of adults over 40 have had a first dose, and the province expects all Saskatchewan adults will be eligible to be vaccinated by that date as well.
"We're not going to have a Trudeau summer here in Saskatchewan," Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says. "We're going to have a one-dose spring, quite likely a two-dose summer."
In Regina, Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe provides an update on the province’s response to the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) pandemic. Saskatchewan [.]